off the grid

Meanings

Adjective

• Not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
• Not connected to a publicly available communication system, such as the World Wide Web or a mobile telephone network.
• Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system.
• At an excessive level; too extreme to measure.

Adverb

• In or into a situation or place in which electricity from the public electricity system is not used.
• In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed.
• Secretly; in a clandestine manner.

Related

Similar words

• incommunicado